PowerShell Job Trends in Edinburgh

Windows PowerShell
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PowerShell skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 53 79
Rank change year-on-year +8 +26 +3
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 37 37 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.74% 2.92% 2.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.10% 7.60% 5.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5 22 23
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,335
25th Percentile £51,068 £51,500 £48,167
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £57,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +29.57% -18.53% +34.43%
75th Percentile £77,750 £85,000 £89,543
90th Percentile £85,100 £97,626 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £49,707 £53,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -6.21% -10.17% +14.56%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 245 487 487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 31.37% 38.50% 43.21%
Number of salaries quoted 112 292 392
10th Percentile £28,250 £39,775 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,346
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £60,750
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -1.23% +1.25%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,886 £76,250
90th Percentile £89,750 £88,625 £88,750
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +0.88%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing PowerShell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for PowerShell in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (16.22%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.41%) CICS
2 2 (5.41%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (5.41%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 34 (91.89%) Azure
2 20 (54.05%) Entra ID
2 20 (54.05%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (35.14%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (16.22%) Azure Logic Apps
4 6 (16.22%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (16.22%) Boomi
4 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Purview
4 6 (16.22%) Mimecast
4 6 (16.22%) SaaS
5 5 (13.51%) GitHub
6 4 (10.81%) Azure App Service
6 4 (10.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (5.41%) dbt
7 2 (5.41%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.70%) AWS
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (2.70%) GCP
8 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) DNS
2 5 (13.51%) Firewall
3 4 (10.81%) VPN
4 2 (5.41%) DHCP
5 1 (2.70%) BGP
5 1 (2.70%) LAN
5 1 (2.70%) MPLS
5 1 (2.70%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (2.70%) WAN
5 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.41%) DB2
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (83.78%) Finance
2 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Senior
2 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) REST
1 6 (16.22%) SAML
1 6 (16.22%) SOAP
1 6 (16.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (72.97%) Product Ownership
2 6 (16.22%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.41%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Windows
2 4 (10.81%) VMS
3 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (81.08%) Asset Management
1 30 (81.08%) Coaching
2 28 (75.68%) Roadmaps
3 27 (72.97%) Agile
4 22 (59.46%) DevOps
5 20 (54.05%) Artificial Intelligence
6 18 (48.65%) Analytics
6 18 (48.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (48.65%) FinOps
6 18 (48.65%) ITIL
6 18 (48.65%) Machine Learning
6 18 (48.65%) Technology Roadmap
7 17 (45.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (32.43%) Information Security
9 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
10 8 (21.62%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (16.22%) Deployment Automation
12 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Automation
12 6 (16.22%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (75.68%) Python
2 14 (37.84%) Bash
3 6 (16.22%) JavaScript
3 6 (16.22%) SQL
4 4 (10.81%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (5.41%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) CISSP
2 1 (2.70%) CREST Certified
2 1 (2.70%) SANS
2 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) GDPR
2 3 (8.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (32.43%) Virtual Desktop
2 8 (21.62%) Active Directory
3 6 (16.22%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (10.81%) Docker
5 2 (5.41%) Hyper-V
5 2 (5.41%) RACF
Systems Management
1 22 (59.46%) Terraform
2 14 (37.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (16.22%) SCCM
3 6 (16.22%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
5 3 (8.11%) Ansible
5 3 (8.11%) Grafana
6 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (43.24%) Microsoft
2 9 (24.32%) ServiceNow
3 6 (16.22%) MuleSoft
3 6 (16.22%) Workday
4 3 (8.11%) Splunk
5 2 (5.41%) Broadcom
5 2 (5.41%) IBM
6 1 (2.70%) F5
6 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.70%) SolarWinds